AusBonsai

Hi all,

My names Greg I'm 24 and I'm as fresh as they get coming in to the hobby. My knowledge of bonsai is reletively minimal but I have been constantly reading and reading over the last week.

I've always loved the art form and have decided to get into so I can create bonsais of trees in my family home and my partners family home that we can take with us to our apartment when we move in. (Getting married January 2017).

At this stage I have planted several cuttings and hoping I will get them to root. I used what I had lying around the house for now so the mix is around 40 percent vermiculite and 60 percent coco peat and in small water bottles cut in half. I'm aware that perlite is much better so if this fails I'll get some perlite and try again.

Plants are from left to right
Pic 1 - 2x buganvilias and 2x unknown (my cubby house tree)
Pic 2 - 2x bottle brush (too thin?) and 2x australian fig trees.

Anyway just thought I'd share. Please let me know if you have tips for me to get these growing well!

P.s are any of the cutting too small should find larger ones?

Cheers

Greg
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Hope you have some drainage holes in those drink bottles ! Roots need air as well as water , they can drown . Some cuttings grow and some die . Read up on plant propagation . Join a Bonsai club !
Welcome to the addiction .
Cheers
Graham

Thanks graham. They sure do. Each has four medium sized holes with mesh over them so the substrates doesn't fall out.

Oh and I should also add I used the honey water mix as a diy "root hormone".

I'll look into some clubs.

Cheers

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